The Global Impact Initiative will bolster areas in which MSU already has a strong foundation, such as plant science, engineering, physical science and STEM education, while expanding research in genomics, cybersecurity, computational science and precision medicine. The priority research areas were developed from nearly 90 proposals submitted by MSU faculty members. More...

How do students and teachers learn math and computer science, and how can we ease the coming shortage of computer science teachers? Worcester Polytechnic Institute will partner with Brown University and Bootstrap to examine those questions. More...

A new patent-pending data model for colleges and universities aims to help evolve how schools deliver on their mission by improving how data is shared. More...

By Justin Beck. The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its ‘Best Value’ ratings of colleges of education across the U.S. The ratings include a measure of quality that also factors in affordability, average teacher salary in each state, and the ability to prepare future teachers for the realities of the classroom. More...

By Justin Beck. In the last generation, mass media has truly become “mass”. It used to be that information—whether in schools, in the media, or in the professional sphere—was disseminated top-down. A small group of people would produce something (textbooks, movies, news reports, advertising, company handbooks) and the rest of us would consume it. More...

By Alex Nixon. When the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested in Pittsburgh startup Acrobatiq Inc., it wasn’t expecting to earn a tidy return on its money. More...

By Andrew Barbour. In the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College—and additional slayings on campuses in Texas and Arizona in the days after—university administrators are struggling to square such events with life at their own institutions and the possibility of something similar happening. More...

By Meris Stansbury. Significant return-on-financial-investment (ROFI), massive social networking momentum, and thousands of downloads of one University’s MOOC have led experts to conclude that their MOOC initiative is a home-run success—a success that has nothing to do with completion rates. More...

A new education initiative,Go College! Now, is dedicated to improving college access and completion for all students, particularly first generation and low-income students. More...

Excelsior College has received a $1.9 million grant that will  be used to develop the Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement of College Skills (DAACS), an open-source assessment tool, which will allow colleges and universities to target resources and services to students based on their academic and non-academic skills. More...